New Patrons

BECOMING A PARTNER

By providing support, you can actively contribute to the production of works of art by internationally renowned artists. Since 1991, more than 1,000 private and public partners, ranging from individuals to the European Union, and including small to medium-size businesses, local government, state ministries and administrations – have already taken part in the creation of more than 250 projects. Completion may take one year or several years, depending on the context and subject of the work, with budgets ranging from 15,000 euros to several million euros.

Your contribution to the New Patrons programme, in the form of financial support, donations in kind or services, is adapted to fit your situation and your skills.

This can involve:

actions as mediators on the ground, at a local, regional or country level
particular projects and artists
the development of a European network and forum for debate

This can come from private donors (individuals, foundations or companies) as well as public funding, in the form of an exclusive partnership or a more general agreement.

These funds, in accordance with the legislation of the country in question, can benefit from tax exemptions for private sponsorship. This also gives partners communication usage rights.

You will join an innovative circle of contributors, including those bodies which have allowed New Patron programme and actions to take place, such as the Fondation de France (in 1991) in France and across Europe, in Belgium the Fondation du Roi Baudouin, in Italy the Olivetti Foundation and in Germany the Alfred Toepfer Foundation and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education).

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PROMOTE

A DEMOCRATIC ART ECOMONY

New Patron actions allow the majority of funding for art projects to be allocated to projects which are best fulfil the wishes of the local population while limiting management costs.

This involves bringing together all social actors while retaining the specificity of their roles and knowledge: individual citizens, art professionals, artists, politicians, fundraisers and those responsible for public and private business.

Using the competencies of not-for-profit organisations skilled in harnessing people’s initiative, New Patrons is, for the first time, transferring the intervention model of non-governmental organisations to the field of art and culture.

Taking a broader perspective, this represents an opportunity to create new tools which are of general interest: structures such as microcredit applied to cultural intervention, the sharing of common resources and fair distribution of return on investment.

Finally, it allows companies or administrations that would not typically work in the area of the arts to include elements of cultural development and capacity building in their support and funding policies. This has also received the support of significant actors within the fields of education, health, research, heritage, industry and public works.